23:27
A US attorney has opened an investigation looking into the release of a potentially dangerous chemical into parts of West Virginia's water supply.Nearly 200,000 residents in nine counties have been told not to drink the water and avoid cooking with it, brushing their teeth or even taking a...
23:03
After a big row led to scrapping of a 5-bedroom duplex apartment for him, a fresh search for a new house for Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is expected to begin tomorrow. The Secretary of the Ministry of Urban Development Sudhir Krishna today met Kejriwal to discuss the issue of an...
22:32
A magazine today reported that Francois Hollande routinely hops on a scooter to spend the night with an actress, a revelation that has created yet another headache for the unpopular French president. Hollande reacted furiously to the allegation -- backed up by photos reportedly showing the...
22:27
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama today arrived here on a three-day visit to meet the members of the Norgyeling Tibetan Settlement Camp in Gothangaon of Arjuni Morgaon tehsil in the district. The Dalai Lama, who is here after a gap of ten years, was accorded a warm traditional welcome...
22:21
For the first time ever, half of US Congressmen, both Democrats and Republicans, are millionaires, according to figures from a group that examines the influence of money on politics. At least 268 of 534 lawmakers currently elected to the House of Representatives and the Senate had a net...
22:18
In a major bureaucratic reshuffle, nine senior IAS officials serving in Delhi government were today transferred out of the city. Six IAS officials serving in Arunachal Pradesh and Andaman Nicobar Islands have been posted to Delhi administration.
22:04
A fresh controversy has erupted with another woman intern accusing a Supreme Court judge, who has since retired, of sexual harassment and demands being made for an inquiry by the apex court into it. TV channel CNN-IBN named the judge, who retired more than a year ago, is currently presiding...
21:28
Former army chief V K Singh, who didnot turn up before a Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council privileges committee yesterday, will appear before it on January 22, complying with fresh summons issued in connection with his alleged remarks against leaders from the state.
20:30
A PIL filed in the Bombay High Court has challenged the Election Commission's decision to register Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party, contending that the name is misleading and unconstitutional.The petition, filed by advocate Chittranjan Kumar, may come up for hearing in the next two weeks. It...
20:14
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today decided to confer Sitara-e-Shujaat -- one of Pakistan's top bravery awards -- on a 14-year-old boy who died while stopping a suicide bomber from attacking his school. Prime Minister has advised the President to...
19:49
Prasanna Zore reports from Mumbai: Central Railway spokesperson A K Singh clarified that due to some union issue the Central Railway motormen and guards had called a flash strike. However, the strike that started at 6.35 pm was called off at 7.14 as the issues raised by the motormen...
18:30
Another press conference from Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, this time to announce that a power hotline has been established to report unscheduled power cuts and other complaints related to electricity like faulty meters. The number is 9223166166. Randomly 10,000 letters will be picked and meters...
17:56
Arun Jaitley's blog today: The Country now awaits the BJP's big idea for governance. Read
17:26
In what is believed to be India's tit-for-tat to the US in the Devyani Khobragade episode, India as asked the US to withdraw the diplomatic immunity of its diplomat who used his tax exemption privilege to book tickets for Sangeeta Richard's family. India has asked the US Embassy in New Delhi to...
17:23
The BJP today described the indictment of diplomat Devyani Khobragade in the United States as a defeat for India, saying that the criminal case against her would remain in America. Bringing Khobragade is our defeat not a win because a case will be on against her in the US. The US has decided....
16:57
Nilekani confirmed that it would be the Congress party that he would be joining. Congress has been very kind and supportive of me and my ideas, the 58-year-old said at a press conference today.The Congress is likely to field Nilekani from Bangalore South in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
16:46
IT Czar and the chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India, Nandan Nilekeni, says that he is ready to contest the Lok Sabha polls. Nilekani will be contesting the polls on a Congress ticket. He had earlier said that participatory democracy is good, but it is just not right to...
16:43
Yogendra Yadav tweets that he has been misquoted in the Economic Times on the question of reservation. He says he has never supported increasing the quantum of reservation and had actually said that the criteria of affirmative action must be expanded beyond caste to include gender and economic...
15:50
UP CM Akhilesh Yadav holds a press conference defending the Saifai celebrations. On the defensive for the extensive criticism the celebrations have earned in the background of the tardy relief for the Muzaffarnagar riot victims, Yadav said the Saifai festival is held every year, and would have...
15:10
PM Dr Manmohan Singh is expected to land in Mumbai any time now. In fact after his scheduled 3 pm arrival in the city, the PM is headed for Parel at 4 pm. From there he is heading back to Sahar where he will inaugurate the swanky T2 terminal at 5 pm. Expect traffic congestion on Western Express...
15:01
A bureacratic snag will force India's Olympic athletes to wave a generic flag at the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, rather than the orange, white and green. Indian athletes are fuming at their Olympic Association for its sluggish response to a corruption scandal in...
14:46
If this is the only reason you were voting for the BJP read this: The BJP is likely to drop a plan to promise sweeping tax reforms, including the scrapping or reducing of income tax, a move seen by many as a way of winning over the middle class and urban voters of the country ahead...
14:37
Arvind Kejriwal confirms that social activist Medha Patkar will join AAP. The Aam Aadmi Party had contacted the noted activist asking her to join the party. Patkar, who is a convener of the National Alliance of People's Movements and leads the Narmada Bachao Andolan for the rights of the...
14:32
Amid clamour in Congress to declare Rahul Gandhi its Prime Ministerial candidate, party leader Digvijay Singh today appeared advocating caution, noting that in a parliamentary system it is the elected members of Parliament and Assemblies who choose their leader. I have been consistently saying...
14:20
US intelligence experts were worried that Osama bin Laden would be reincarnated in an immortal' form: as a virtual avatar, controlled by a network of al-Qaeda jihadis in cyberspace. A confidential white paper from 2008, released by the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence...
14:15
Mahesh Bhatt tells NDTV he's failed as a father by letting Alia dance at Saifai Sharmila Tagore says stars must be aware of news, read papers.
14:11
Ailing actress Suchita Sen continues to remain critical hardly showing any signs of improvement, doctors attending on her said today. The 82-year-old actress, suffering from a respiratory tract infection, continues to be critical and is not properly responding to medicines leaving the doctors...
13:52
Had the Government of Uttar Pradesh not been 'secular' it would have been censured in our newspapers on a daily basis for the inhumane manner in which it continues to treat the victims of the Muzaffarnagar riots. Read
13:44
Edwin Lutyens' architecture was the first to successfully fuse east and west. Is India really about to bulldoze his work? William Dalrymple's argument on why Delhi's Lutyens' bungalows should be saved. Read
13:35
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal holding a press conference on the launch of the party's national membership drive. Kejriwal says the party is starting a campaign called the Main Bhi Aam Admi Hoon drive and is looking at recruiting 1 crore members by January 26. He said those willing to join can do so by...
13:08
Arvind Kejriwal has said that he is not upset Kiran Bedi supporting Narendra Modi and the BJP over him and the Aam Aadmi Party.Bedi, who shared the stage with Kejriwal during the Anna Hazare Jan Lokpal movement said yesterday, For me it's India First! Stable, Well Governed, Administered,...
13:04
BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Friday said former Army chief Gen V K Singh and Anna Hazare's aide Kiran Bedi should be invited to join the party, a day after the former IPS officer endorsed party's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.We should invite Kiran Bedi & Gen Singh to join...
12:37
Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh had a meeting with Chief Election Commissioner VS Sampath on the hindrances faced by his ministry during election campaigns. Ramesh said that the model code of conduct comes in the way of developmental projects thereby hindering sanctions...
12:21
In other news: Girls' choir to sing at on 25 January as Canterbury Cathedral takes steps towards gender equality. Read
12:11
Kiran Bedi says she will vote for NaMo? Surprising. As ex-IGP of Tihar, she had so many alumni of that esteemed institution to choose from, tweets Ramesh Srivats.
12:09
When Bismillah Khan plays the shehnai and NG Jog the violin, the violin does not become the shehnai nor the shehnai the violin. Thus, when the Aam Aadmi Party and the Congress stand on the same side of secularism against the BJP's communalism, it does not make the AAP the Congress or the...
12:03
Kiran Bedi was reportedly ready to join the BJP if she was made CM candidate for Delhi. Her stand on Modi is (a) unsurprising (b) her right, tweets Shiv Aroor.
12:02
The cartoon on the Hindu on the increasing number of people signing up for AAP.
12:01
The benchmark BSE Sensex moved up by 125 points in late morning trade today on a rise in IT stocks as Infosys increased its revenue growth guidance for the year ending March 31, 2014. The BSE-30 share index Sensex resumed higher at 20,760.72 and hovered in a range of 20,843.38 and 20,625.17...
11:57
A 14-year-old boy is being hailed as a hero in Pakistan for tackling a suicide bomber -- dying at the main gate of his school and saving schoolmates gathered for their morning assembly.Ninth-grader Aitazaz Hassan Bangash was on his way to the Ibrahimzai School on Monday in the Hangu district of...
11:44
The Uttar Pradesh government has reportedly decided that Arvind Kejriwal will be given the highest level Z Plus security cover in the state, but the Delhi Chief Minister maintains that he doesn't need it.Kejriwal, the new chief minister of Delhi, resides in the Kaushambi area of Ghaziabad in...
11:35
It's hard to recall a more depressing month in recent memory than November, 2013. The judgment in the Aarushi Talwar murder case and the sudden destruction of Tehelka because of rape charges against its editor have together overwhelmed us with difficult questions about the prevalence of law...
11:28
Uttam Khobragade saying Devyani was fighting to save India's sovereignty is like saying Arindam Chaudhuri is working to save India's economy, tweets Shiv Aroor. Also read: Devyani is composed, cheerful and happy, says her father.
11:21
Even a communal riot cannot stop some politicians from making merry. Nearly 15,000 of the victims of the recent riots in Muzaffarnagar are still sheltered in relief camps. The government seems to have done little to inspire their confidence that it is safe to go back home. But Akhilesh Yadav,...
11:17
Bollywood actors and Dalit activists from Maharashtra's rural hinterland may have little in common for much of the year. But with election season approaching, they're joining the state's newest political outfit - AAP. The impact of Arvind Kejriwal's impressive Delhi show can be felt in the...
11:12
Actor Salman Khan, pilloried for performing at the Saifai Mahotsav in Uttar Pradesh where thousands of people in riot-hit Muzaffarnagar are struggling to survive, has found an unlikely ally in Shah Rukh Khan.I wouldn't take a moral high ground on it, Shah Rukh Khan said at an event...
11:09
Tuesday's attack on the Aam Aadmi Party headquarters, attributed to a fringe Hindu right-wing group, is the clearest sign yet that the AAP is being viewed as a political phenomenon to watch out for in the upcoming general election. Indeed, it seems no more than an excuse that the vandalism...
10:57
Love him or hate him, but don't expect Arvind Kejriwal to play matchmaker. Delhi's new chief minister has promised on the spot' roadside justice to citizens but thrown up his hands when it comes to matters of the heart. The other day a girl came to me saying that her boyfriend is not...
10:55
Arvind Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) may be winning a growing legion of supporters but one of his former associates, IPS officer Kiran Bedi, has openly endorsed Narendra Modi as Prime Minister.For me it's India First! Stable, Well Governed, Administered, Accountable and...
10:19
The Bombay High Court will today conduct the hearing on the notice issued to Shah Rukh Khan, wife Gauri Khan and the BMC in the sex determination case of their child born through surrogacy. The notice has been issued to the celebrity couple after Varsha Despande, a social activist, filed a...
09:41
With an eye on crucial General Elections in 2014, the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party is set to begin on Friday a massive all-India recruitment drive for which the party has decided to waive off its Rs 10 membership fee. The membership campaign named as 'Mein Bhi Aam Aadmi' will continue...
09:10
Another law intern has alleged that she was sexually harassed by a Supreme Court judge, according to an Indian Express report. This comes just days after former SC Judge Justice AK Ganguly stepped down as the West Bengal Human Rights Commission chief following charges that he sexually...
09:06
A Jodhopur court will today begin hearing arguments in the rape case controversial godman Asaram Bapu.Judge Manoj Kumar Vyas court had on Thursday ordered the beginning of arguments from Friday after the prosecution moved anapplication under section 211 of the CrPC, pleading the court to read out...
09:03
After missing several deadlines in past three years and incurring over 32 per cent cost escalation, the new international terminal (T2) at the Mumbai airport is all set to be inaugurated today, promising to provide fliers a whole new experience with its features. Prime Minister Manmohan...
04:36
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said today a Syrian peace conference planned for later this month will fail if Tehran, Damascus's main regional ally, does not participated, media reported. The remarks came ahead of a meeting Monday at which Russia and the United States are to discuss...
04:18
An Indian diplomat accused of lying about how much she paid her housekeeper has been indicted in New York City.Devyani Khobragade is charged with visa fraud and making false statements in a case that has triggered an outcry in India. Federal prosecutors announced her indictment Thursday. Two...
04:18
Former prime minister Ariel Sharon's condition deteriorated dramatically on Thursday and he was hanging onto to life at press time.Sheba Medical Center downgraded Sharon's status to very critical. Hospital officials said he was in immediate danger of death and that others in his condition...
04:14
Afghanistan says it will release scores of Taliban fighters from jails, despite American objections that the men pose a security threat.The Afghan government says it only has enough evidence to try 16 of the 88 prisoners, so it will release the other 72 men.US State Department spokeswoman Jen...
03:50
The Coast Guard says rescuers have called off the search for a sailor who has been missing since a Navy helicopter with five crew members aboard crashed in the ocean off the Virginia coast. Two people died in the Wednesday crash, which happened during a routine training mission
03:50
Former President of Cuba Fidel Castro made a rare public appearance to attend the opening of an art studio in Cuba's capital on Wednesday, the Associated Press reports.Cuban newspapers, broadcasts and websites all publicized a photo Thursday of Castro at the event. The photo shows...
03:46
Khobragade: I will show my immunity to the court. The court will see thatI have diplomatic immunity. Only then will I leave the US.
02:15
New Yorkers living around the rebuilt World Trade Centre are fighting what they call the fortresslike security planned for their neighbourhood saying the USD 40 million barrier would block them in. Residents have sued the New York Police Department, the city and the Port Authority of New York and...
01:54
Endorsing the BJP's prime ministerial candidate, former IPS officer and Anna Hazare's key aide Kiran Bedi today said Narendra Modi can provide stable, accountable and inclusive government. On Thursday late night, Bedi said that her vote would go for Modi in order to have a stable, well...
01:09
Iraqi security forces backed by tanks battled militants today in Anbar province, where fighting has displaced thousands and sparked warnings of rights abuses and a worsening humanitarian crisis. They also faced violence in the capital, where a suicide bomber targeted an army recruiting...
00:41
An 18-year-old girl was allegedly abducted, confined and raped repeatedly for two days by a local goon in North-East Delhi's Seelampur area, police said today. According to police, the girl was abducted at gunpoint by Wasir and his woman associate, Pravin, on Monday night when she went to a...
00:39
A local court today convicted directors of 19 companies whose promoters include wife and sons, family members and relatives of B Ramalinga Raju, founder of Satyam Computer Services Limited, for allegedly evading income tax. M Laxman, special judge for Economic Offences Court, sentenced the...
00:39
A snow avalanche hit Macchil sector of Kashmir today killing an army jawan, a defence spokesman said. A snow avalanche struck in the general area of Macchil this evening. One soldier was killed in the incident, the spokesman said.
00:37
Iran and world powers met today to discuss how to implement a landmark deal aimed at containing Tehran's nuclear drive, less than two weeks before the agreement is due to take effect. Iranian, EU and US negotiators gathered in Geneva for their highest-level talks since hammering out the...
00:35
In a second incident of man-animal conflict in the district, a person was killed in a tiger attack on Thursday. The unfortunate incident occurred at Kolara Gate, one of the entry gates of the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR), here.
00:34
Jan Lokpal by first week of February: Arvind KejriwalAAP's anti-graft helpline swamped with 4,500 calls in 7 hours!Chargesheet filed against Asaram in rape casePM should resign after govt's admission in SC on coal gateUS releases pics of civilian deaths during Lankan civil warCong rubbishes...
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